Isaac M. Yoakum
Isaac M. Yoakum was born around 1842 in Missouri to Adam and Martha Yoakum. His father was a farmer who owned $1,200 of real estate by 1850. The family moved to Fannin County, Texas, in the 1840s.
 
He enlisted in the Confederate army on October 2, 1861, and he mustered in as a private in Company F of the 11th Texas Cavalry. He was promoted to sergeant on May 8, 1862. In August 1862, he rejoiced at rumors that “Kentucky, Indianna Ilenois [and] Ohio have refused to furnish any more men for the Linchon Government and…that some of the Politicians of the North are making stump speaches against the War.” If the rumors were true, he predicted, “we will soon be allowed to return home in peace.” He was wounded in the Battle of Stones River, receiving a “flesh wound in the thigh” and a “spent ball in the shoulder.” He died of his wounds in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in January 1863.
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DATABASE CONTENT
(3814)Yoakum, Isaac M.18421863-01
  • Conflict Side: Confederacy
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Sergeant
  • Rank highest: Sergeant
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 14

  • (10736) [writer] ~ Isaac M. Yoakum to Adam S. Yoakum et al., June 1862
  • (10737) [recipient] ~ Martha Yoakum to Isaac M. Yoakum, undated
  • (10738) [writer] ~ Isaac M. Yoakum to Adam S. Yoakum, 28 June 1862
  • (10739) [writer] ~ Isaac M. Yoakum to Adam S. Yoakum, 6 July 1862
  • (10740) [writer] ~ Isaac M. Yoakum to Brother, 26 July 1862
  • (10741) [writer] ~ Isaac M. Yoakum to Adam S. Yoakum, 6 August 1862
  • (10742) [writer] ~ Isaac M. Yoakum to Martha Yoakum, 17 November 1862
  • (10743) [writer] ~ Isaac M. Yoakum to James C. Yoakum, 15 November 1862
  • (10744) [writer] ~ Isaac M. Yoakum to Martha Yoakum, 21 November 1862
  • (10745) [writer] ~ Isaac M. Yoakum to James C. Yoakum, 6 December 1862
  • (10746) [writer] ~ Isaac M. Yoakum to Martha Yoakum, 21 December 1862
  • (10747) [writer] ~ Isaac M. Yoakum to Adam S. Yoakum, 3 January 1863
  • (10749) [associated with] ~ Poem, undated
  • (10750) [associated with] ~ "Farewell," undated

People - Records: 4

  • (3815) Yoakum, Adam Stump is the [parent of] (3814) Yoakum, Isaac M.
  • (3816) Yoakum, Martha is the [parent of] (3814) Yoakum, Isaac M.
  • (3817) Yoakum, James Columbus is the [sibling of] (3814) Yoakum, Isaac M.
  • (3818) Saunders, Sparrell Witt is the [friend of] (3814) Yoakum, Isaac M.

Places - Records: 2

  • (533) [birth] ~ Missouri
  • (224) [death] ~ Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (1057) [enlisted] [F] ~ 11th Texas Cavalry
SOURCES

1850 United States Federal Census, available from Ancestry.com; Military Service Records of Isaac M. Yoakum, available from Fold3.com; Isaac M. Yoakum to Adam S. Yoakum, 6 August 1862, DL1694.005, Nau Collection; Isaac M. Yoakum to Adams S. Yoakum, 3 January 1863, DL1694.011, Nau Collection